Cheatsheets/GPG_Cheatsheet.md

# GPG Cheatsheet 🔐

## Key Management 🔑

- **Generate a new GPG key pair:**
  ```bash
  gpg --full-generate-key

• List all keys in your GPG keyring:

  gpg --list-keys
  

• List all the secret keys in your GPG keyring:

  gpg --list-secret-keys
  

Message Encryption and Decryption 💌

• Encrypt a message:

  gpg -e -u "your-email@example.com" -r "recipient@example.com" message.txt
  

  This creates message.txt.gpg.

• Decrypt a message:

  gpg -o decrypted-message.txt -d message.txt.gpg
  

  This creates decrypted-message.txt.

GPG Folder Encryption Cheat Sheet 📂

Encrypting a Folder 🔒

1. Create a tarball from the folder you want to encrypt:

   tar -czvf archive.tar.gz /path/to/folder_to_encrypt
   

2. Encrypt the tarball using GPG:

   gpg -e -r your-email@example.com archive.tar.gz
   

Decrypting a Folder 🔓

1. Decrypt the GPG file to a tarball:

   gpg -o archive.tar.gz -d archive.tar.gz.gpg
   

2. Extract the tarball to the original folder:

   tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz
   

Encrypting a message for yourself: [Different Method] 🤔

1. Generate a Key Pair:

   gpg --gen-key
   

2. Encrypt the Message:

   gpg -e -u "Your Name" -r "Your Name" message.txt
   

3. Decrypt the Message:

   gpg -d message.txt.gpg
   

Encrypting a message for someone else: 🤝

1. Import Their Public Key:

   gpg --import theirkey.gpg
   

2. Encrypt the Message:

   gpg -e -u "Your Name" -r "Their Name" message.txt
   

Exporting & Importing Keys 📤📥

1. Exporting Your Public Key:

   gpg --list-keys
   gpg --export -a "Your Name" > public.key
   

Feel free to upload this to your GitHub repository!